Last Friday / Saturday was part 1 of the options mastery program trial I'm heading. 1st time I'm doing this. First day, there were lots of improvements to be done. When I look down at the audience giving me the "???" look.. I said to myself.. die. Lucky during the trial run, there were lots of highly experienced people. It did help a lot with their feedback. Second day was a lot better, it's funny how I taught advance strategies better then beginner stuff. Gotta brush up on that.

Last night, I found some time and I went to the gym. While running and carrying weights, the recalled the past. What did I do to get here, what changed me. It's little overwhelming at first, but I'll pen it all down soon. Along my journey, I came across many fantastic people in my life that I'm truly grateful for their presence. Be it meeting them 1 on 1 for less then a minute to the several hours and years spent with them, they made a difference in my life. I'll be opening a section on this side just to say thanks, and perhaps to give a good recommendation. Right now, I have a few that instantly comes to my mind and I hope to share how wonderful these individual are.

No one can predict the market... Here are some of their predictions from 2014:

1) Gold will decline significantlyI call bullshit! Gold is at $1,073, never approaching Goldman's target, and finished the year essentially flat, down just about 3%.

2) Oil will be at $90 in the 1st quater of 2015Bullshit! Its way below 50% of what they predicted

3) Brazil will win the world cupI think you will know what I'm gonna say.. yea BS

The financial media is rife with predictions and punditry, as that helps sell investors, but rarely do analysts take the time to look back on the accuracy of their predictions. Moving price targets on items such as oil prices makes doing so even more difficult as each prediction seems to be subject to further review. This should remind investors that in the financial markets, there are no true "experts" who know with certainty what will happen in the future.

PUTS on PNRA - Has gone below our strike price. As we are still more then a month away, it's still too early on any actions.. let the market do it's thing. Will monitor the charts for follow up actions.

As expected WMT price gap up after earnings, I can continue my diagonial with DEC 15 60 calls for consistently 10% a month since opening up the positions on WMT.

This week will be the start for trial run for my options mastery program. I hope I could deliver value.

While knowledge is undeniably important, there's another side to investing that you need to master: your emotions. How you think about investing drives your approach to the subject, which feeds your investing behavior, which in turn brings you success or failure. So it's important that you have a level head as you make your way through your investing career. The following tips will help you keep calm, whatever the market throws at you.

Have a Three- to Five-Year Time FrameAny time you buy a stock or stock-based ETF, be thinking in terms of at least three to five years. You may not end up actually holding the investment that long, but every step along the way, you should be thinking, "Is this something I want to own in the next three to five years?" If you lack a meaningful time frame, you're gambling on short-term outcomes that you can't control. The longer you give a healthy business to perform, the more "control" you have over the outcome.

Always Be Ready for the Fat PitchSometimes, investing is about earning steady returns while waiting for that really fat pitch that puts your returns far over the top. While you're waiting, you want to keep your portfolio growing gradually, so you can succeed even if that fat pitch doesn't come along. But if you stay in the game, you're likely to encounter a handful of fat pitches every decade — and they can make a large difference.

DiversifyBeing diversified is the only way to achieve success over the years. Owning various sectors and assets ensures you'll have exposure to any that do well — and at various times, most of them eventually will; you just don't know when. Nearly as important, diversification gives you peace of mind. If your portfolio is too concentrated, volatility can shake your confidence at the worst times. To that end, you should own as many of its positions as you can. For proper diversification, I suggest owning at least 12 stocks across various industries, as well as some stock-based ETFs. Once you own more than a few dozen stocks or so, the benefits of diversification can start to diminish.

Accept LossesYou should diversify because you never know which positions will do well and which won't. You will always have losers when you're investing in stocks; what's most important is how your portfolio performs overall, despite those losses. Peter Lynch said, "In this business, if you're good, you're right six times out of 10," suggesting that 40% of your investments will lose money. Don't beat yourself up about that; it's just part of investing. Focus on how your portfolio does as a whole, learn what you can from your losers, and move forward happily when you have profits overall. The bottom line is that losses are an inevitable part of the landscape. You can't keep them from happening; you can only control your reaction when they do.

See that title, see until sian a not? One of my daily digest is marketwatch.comThey do have great writers as well as some idiots. Calling market crash is sure great way to get attention, after all, that's what most web writers need to do. Examples:

If I had believed them, I would have never grown as an investor. As an individual investor, our goals are long term, we evaluate, we do risk management. Looking forward to grow with my fellow investors, going thru bad and good times together =)

Sharing one of my positions:Last night I did a 170 PUT option on PNRA. My personal take, feel free to leave your comments of my position, I could be wrong and we learn together. Looking at FA and evaluation, it's under-valued. It looks like recovering from an over-sold territory. $170 shows strong support. I will monitor my PUTS on this and will update on my follow up actions if I close/roll/expire..

After doing your research, you reckon that company ABC is fundamentally sound and is a good stock to invest in. So when is a good timing to buy? This is where looking at charts - commonly known as Technical Analysis (TA) - can be useful. The chart will show the stock's price over time and TA can help investors anticipate what is "likely" to happen to prices in the near future. Chart reading is about probability and does not result in absolute prediction about the future. However, it provides a useful tool for analysis. For example, a very common TA chart pattern is called "double bottom". If the stock you are interested in is showing such pattern, it may signal that price has reached a bottom and may reverse soon.

In short, Fundamental Analysis tells you "what" to buy and Technical Analysis tells you "when" to buy.

Last night I conducted another workshop. Much to my surprise, it was full. It was a very basic workshop, thus my surprise. I have quite a lot of messages coming into my FB inbox asking me stuff. While I'm happy addressing each individual, sometimes it takes up lots of my time. I'm pretty happy Sean has arrange this class to make it possible. Hoping to help people is my way of giving back =)